Ask anyone who grew up with a Dendy or a Terminator or a Polystation if lack of access to the latest expensive hardware stopped them getting into games

>go back to the past >look inside >shitty games that suck ass

A phrase I remember being coined by Yahtzee that gets more true as time goes on goes something like "how a game is made is as much a story as anything in the game itself", and it's a wonderful thing, truly

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

half life 2 tells the story of a world where humans can no longer reproduce and so explosive red barrels and see-saw puzzles have grown in numbers to fill the ecological gap left behind

anyone else ever notice this about n64 emulation

i had a funny thought earlier when someone mentioned that the anti-piracy checks in mega man x trigger in the new emulator what emulators even let you (intentionally!) see those? let you intentionally say "yeah, make the hardware fail this check. make it look like i'm a pirate."

Huh. They never learn.

GOOD POST

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

ECCO: THE TIDES OF TIME NOVOTRADE SOFTWARE KIT 1994 SEGA GENESIS

Added an extra column because I'm pedantic about the Retro and Vintage labels. I often feel like these types of lists are personal absolutes, it's just what I felt it was adequate to put in, maybe add some underrepresented games in the mix.

vibe coding changes it from "I'm just a little guy making mistakes, it happens" to "you're using the supposed world class tools and your code is still dogshit". same difference between hand made off model plush and mass produced imported garbage imo.

It's 1am what am I doing

I am SICK of waifishly thin baby-faced catgirls. I YEARN FOR YESTERDAY'S CATGIRL im talking big 80's hair metal manes. Big, oiled up muscles. Fangs and claws!!!! I want cat WOMEN give them back to me!!!!!!

a kobold named Shovelware who collects terrible video games she is very excited to show you her copy of Big Rigs Over The Road Racing

i'm just fucking tired, man. technology was constantly shown off to be this wild transformative, useful thing, and in the last 15+ years it has been absolutely turned into this fucking nightmare hell of bullshit. there is no personal computer. it's all someone else's toy. you just get to play w it.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

This posting sucks.

When I buy myself a little treat in this dystopian hellscape

It’s sad how gadget biased the idea of innovation is. Like MRNA vaccines and ozempic and sickle cell treatments and aids treatments and electric cars and solar panels, these must all pale in comparison to da phone robot that talks

Oh god, the post reached the wrong audience

i often think about this review

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

I don't really have much to say about the Discord thing that others haven't already said. We all knew this point was coming eventually, just a matter of when and what the catalyst would be. There's a lot of reasons Discord got as big as it did.

i'd also like to directly confront the idea that, well, for "some reason", things that used to be forums, wikis, websites ended up on discord. it's not a mystery. running a website, wiki, whatever, is hard. maintaining a community is hard. getting people to engage with things is hard.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

a delayed game is eventually good but a canceled game that never comes out and had cool promotional material will be good forever

Ok. Weird prayer but I will keep that in mind I guess.

I genuinely think regular video games need to be horny and mean again

too many people see video games as products and not as culture everyone would appreciate games more if they followed who is creating them instead of only following IPs real life “lore” is infinitely more interesting than fictional lore and it also helps you better understand the fictional lore too

⚠️ NEW DISCORD SCAM WARNING ⚠️ A new Discord scam is going around where users are purporting to give free Nitro. They say that if you click the green Nitro icon, you will get it. This is a scam. Nitro crates actually explode on contact

Jesse Pinkman: Yo Mister White, Someone's at the door! Walter White: Who is it. Infinity Mijinion: Hello Heisenberg. Walter White: *total shock*

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

That's cool you know Vinny.

En Argentina se ha vuelto tendencia editar esta escena de Peter Capusotto y sus videos con temática de videojuegos, y a veces de música. Y quise probar haciendo un meme del estilo con Deus Ex.

the best thing about shooters is that bar none. without fail. across decades of video game history. you will play an expertly crafted masterpiece of pacing and design and then it will end on the worst boss fight ever created by human hands

Xen

Us troops, we're pretty anxious to find out what's going on.

I'm completely broke myself.

I am always sitting right here.

And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?

my most controversial take is that the internet would be a better place in almost all facets if javascript did not exist in it. obviously it does not solve all problems but getting rid of it would sure solve most

every day you log on and learn what one guy said to the other guy